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By Joshua Howat Berger RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) – G20 nations broadly back a two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East, host Brazil said Thursday after a meeting of top diplomats, adding to pressure on Israel to accept an independent Palestinian state. The message from the meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Rio de Janeiro came a day after Israel’s parliament overwhelmingly voted for a proposal by Prime Minister Benjamin […]
BRASÍLIA, Feb 21, 2024 (AFP) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken told President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that the United States disagrees with controversial remarks by the Brazilian leader comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust, a US official said Wednesday. Blinken “made clear we disagree with those comments” in a more than 90-minute meeting with Lula, a senior State Department official told journalists, saying the pair had a “frank exchange” during the […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 19, 2024 (AFP) – Israel’s military on Monday published new images and voiced concern about a mother and her two boys — including a baby who is the youngest hostage held by Palestinian militants in Gaza. Hamas announced in November that all three had been killed in an Israeli bombardment but the Israeli authorities have not confirmed the claim. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said they were “concerned for the welfare” of Shiri Bibas, […]
By Jan HENNOP THE HAGUE, Feb 16, 2024 (AFP) – The UN’s top court Friday rejected South Africa’s request to put more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the Gaza city of Rafah, saying it was “bound to comply with existing measures”. Pretoria has already filed a complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, alleging that its assault on Gaza amounts to a breach of […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 15, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli army alleged on Thursday that bodies of hostages could be held at a hospital in southern Gaza, after troops raided the facility which medics say has been “besieged” for a month. The military said troops were involved in a “precise and limited operation” inside Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis city, after intense fighting between troops and Hamas militants around the facility. “We have credible intelligence from a […]
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 13, 2024 (AFP) – South Africa urged the UN’s top court Tuesday to place more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the densely crowded Gaza city of Rafah. Pretoria has already made a complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, alleging that its assault on Gaza amounts to a breach of the Genocide Convention. The court has yet to rule on the underlying […]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pressed the militant group Hamas on Wednesday to agree a Gaza deal quickly to avoid “dire consequences”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “We call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner deal, to spare our Palestinian people from the calamity of another catastrophic event with dire consequences, no less dangerous than the Nakba of 1948,” Abbas said. The president […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon”, raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire. The military gave no further details of the air strikes, while Lebanese media reported three villages were hit. The strikes came hours after fire from Lebanon wounded multiple people in northern Israel, according to medics. Seven people were wounded, five […]
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Feb 12, 2024 (AFP) – Israel announced on Monday the rescue of two hostages in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where the Hamas-run health ministry said 52 Palestinians including children were killed in heavy overnight air strikes. Israel is preparing for a ground incursion into the teeming city along the border with Egypt, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge from fighting further north. The precarious humanitarian […]
WASHINGTON, Feb 11, 2024 (AFP) – Benjamin Netanyahu says in an interview airing Sunday that the Israeli military will provide “safe passage for the civilian population” ahead of an expected assault on the overcrowded southern Gaza city of Rafah, rejecting fears of a “catastrophe.” Despite international alarm over the potential carnage in a city crammed with more than a million displaced Palestinians, the Israeli prime minister told ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” the […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 10, 2024 (AFP) – Israel’s foreign minister called Saturday for the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to quit, following Israeli claims that a Hamas tunnel had been discovered under its evacuated Gaza City headquarters. Israel Katz dismissed UNRWA commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini’s claim that he was unaware of its presence as “not only absurd but also an affront to common sense”. “His prompt resignation is imperative,” he wrote on X, […]
TEL AVIV, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed ways to secure the release of Gaza hostages with moderates in the Israeli war cabinet a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas demands. Blinken met in Tel Aviv with Benny Gantz and Gabi Eisenkot, two former military chiefs who joined Netanyahu’s war cabinet after the October 7 attack in Israel by Hamas fighters. The talks will focus […]
